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Down memory lane | 20 avril 2008

CEXHIB In Madeira, an emotional High

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Acrimonious Laws | 11 mars 2008

acrimonious |ˌakrəˈmōnēəs|
adjective
(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter : an acrimonious dispute about wages.
DERIVATIVES
acrimoniously adverb
ORIGIN early 17th cent.(in the sense [bitter, pungent] ): from acrimony + -ous .

Thesaurus
acrimonious
adjective
a heated and acrimonious discussion bitter, angry, rancorous, caustic, acerbic, scathing, sarcastic, acid, harsh, sharp, cutting; virulent, spiteful, vicious, vitriolic, hostile, venomous, nasty, bad-tempered, ill-natured, mean, malign, malicious, malignant, waspish; informal bitchy, catty.

Former Democratic contender to the White House

DERIVATIVES
contender noun
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [compete for (something)] ): from Old French contendre or Latin contendere, from con- ‘with’ + tendere ‘stretch, strive.’

Kerry, Smith Take On HIV Travel Ban
THREE CHEERS FOR TEAMWORK!

Senator John Kerry proved himself useful last week. The Democrat joined forces with Oregonian Republican Gordon Smith to introduce legislation easing America’s restrictions on HIV positive travelers. Those restrictions include nearly blanket bans on infected foreigners.
Kerry and Smith released a joint statement, saying:
The United States has one of the harshest restrictions in the world on HIV-positive immigrants.
…
It’s incredible that the federal government still tolerates a ban that not only restricts AIDS experts with the disease but also refugees who are seeking asylum in our country. My legislation will end this draconian law. The attempts to fix this law through a complex waiver system, while admirable, still don’t do anything to rectify the discriminatory underlying problem. That is why I have introduced this legislation to permanently strike this unfair provision from the books.
Kerry and Smith’s plan would give broader power to the Department of Health and Human Services, which originally managed such matters. Congress took control in 1993 with the Immigration and Nationality Act.
So it’s really not that monumental, but it’s better than nothing.

Sec. 1182. Inadmissible aliens

TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12, SUBCHAPTER II, Part II, Sec. 1182.
STATUTE

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

(1) Health-related grounds
(A) In general
Any alien -

(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance, which shall include infection with the etiologic agent for acquired IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME ,

(ii) except as provided in subparagraph (C), who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,

It still Hurts every-time I think of it and only last night I dreamt of it and it was not a nice dream.

They say a STORM is O'Comming but only wind and rain.

MMaxi08

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